Toy pistol



(No Model.)

Toy-Pistol.

.No. 2-26,36l.- Patented April 6, I880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEROME B. SECOR, OF BBIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

TOY PISTOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,361, dated April 6,1880.

Application filed March 4, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME B. SEooR, of Bridgeport, Fairfield county,Connecticut, have invented an Improved Toy Pistol, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention is a pistol,-intended chiefly as a toy, constructed asfully described hereinafter, so as to facilitate and cheapen the manufacture, lock the barrel -in position without the use of springs orcatches, and prevent the use of the pistol, when intended as a toy, fordischarging ball-cartridges.

1n the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l isa sideview, partly in section, of my improved pistol; Fig. 2, a plan view;Fig. 3, a cross-section.

' A represen tsthe handle or stock; B, the barrel; C, the trigger, and Dthe hammer.

The pistol is a breech-loader, the barrel B being pivoted by trunnions0, extending from opposite sides through holes in the two cheeks orsections 1) b of the stock A.

To prevent accidents from discharging ballcartridges, the bore of thebarrel is of such increased width at the breech as to form a chamber,to, to receive the cylinder of the cartridge; but this chamber is onlyas long as said cylinder, the shoulder a, formed by contracting theborein front of the chamber, preventing the passage of a ball, so that ablank cartridge may be inserted in the chamber, but a ball-cartridge canonly be introduced a part of its length. Lips M on the stock A are soarranged that the barrel cannot be turned down as long as the cartridgeprojects beyond the end. Thus when a ball-cartridge is pushed into thechamber, the barrel cannot be turned to a position in which the hammercan strike and explode the charge.

To secure the barrel in position prior to firing, recesses s s are madein the inner faces of the sides I) b, adapted to lugs t t on the barrelwhen the latter is horizontal. The sections b b are secured by rivets60', the latter being at such a distance from the recesses s s that theends of the sections in front of the rivet 6 can spring slightly apartto permit the lugs t t to pass into and from the sockets s s, the barrelbeing thus held in place without interfering with its adjustment whensufficient power is applied to turn it.

It will be apparent that the recesses may be I made in the barrel andthe lugs on the sections 1) b, and that this construction may beemployed in pistols intended for ball-cartridges.

It will be seen that the breech-loadin g pistol thus constructedconsists of but six parts, including the hammer-spring (not shown) andthe two cast rivets, that the barrel may be locked in place, and thatthe toy cannot be converted into a dangerous weapon.

I do not claim as new a tilting barrel retained in horizontal positionby a spring-catch.

1. The. combination of a tilting barrel, B, pivoted by trunnions, and astock, A, having cheeks adapted to receive said trunnions and to springapart to release and fasten the barrel in its tilting movement, therespective parts being provided with holding-lugs and recesses s t, asherein specified.

2. The combination, in a toy pistol, of a stock, A, in twospring-sections, b I), united by rivets c c at and in rear of thehammer, and constructed with lips t t, and a tilting barrel, B, pivotedby trunnions c, and having a breech'chamber, w, the respective partsbeing provided with holding-lugs and recesses s t, as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JEROME B. SECOR. Witnesses:

J. H. GQLLINs, ALFRED B. BEERs.

